The largest repository of 3D printable objects online is Thingiverse from MakerBot Industries. The site isn't the most mobile-friendly, but there's now an official Thingiverse app for iPhone designed ...

3D models drawn in Blender work great in a computer animated virtual world but don’t always when brought into a slicer for 3D printing. Slicers require something which makes sense in the real world.

The first 3D printer in space housed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has run off its first object. The item was a faceplate embossed with "NASA and Made In Space, Inc" and is part of a ...

One of my first discoveries about 3D printing was the large number of mostly-free objects people have designed and made available for you to simply download and print. You don't have to have an iota ...

One of the great things about 3D printers is the fact that they allow anyone to become a manufacturer of small items. Unfortunately, however, they don't allow anyone to become a competent structural ...

Virtual reality has become a great place to make things, and MakeVR is one of the apps that makes it possible. The VR app debuted recently on the HTC Vive VR headset, and it brings a greater degree of ...

If 3D printing companies and government agencies hope to police the spread of dangerous or pirated digital shapes, their task is about to get much more complicated. Late last month Matthew ...

So first there was the online creation of pretty simple items like business cards and T-shirts – businesses which cut out the old middle-man way of doings things. Soon there will be a way to create ...